How much is your pay?

Né-NéRN · Apr 6, 2008

I live and work in Louisville, KY. I work in child and adolescent psych nursing and make $18/hr. I've worked as a nurse in L'ville for 2 years starting in Oncology, then moving to Mother/Baby and now Psych. Oncology was $18/hr and M/B was $23/hr.

I'm cutting back to part-time work and returning to school for my MSN in Psych Nurse Practitioner.

Nursebarebari · Apr 6, 2008

Base is 69k, 6k nite diff, 1.2k 4 q yr of exp, 1.5 bsn, 1.5 cert. 1 make $40.86/hr. NY, full time :yeah:

hope this helps

Nursebarebari · Apr 6, 2008

I think I need to move to another state. I have been a nurse for 15 years and make less then $21.00 per hour.

maybe you should, can you imagine how much you will be making with 15 yrs exp elsewhere. some of our PTC's make 21/hr, their bae is over 18/hr

Nursebarebari · Apr 6, 2008

Just remember please these salaries are only as good as your health/(or your back). Don't burn yourself out for $$.

YOU ARE SO RIGHT! :yeah: :yeah: :yeah:

butterflyC · Apr 6, 2008

I was kind of amazed as i read the posts ... one month ago, i was called by the local medical center here in lucena city because they said that im already hired as a staff:nurse:. I heared that staffs from this hospital is making 11,000-15,000 a month. Not bad for a newly grad i thought ( I graduated last year). After the interview and all, i was told that i will only have 250.00 a day (that's 5 dollars for 10 hours work)... I was assignd to pedia-picu department... we have up to 80 patients and only 1 to 2 nurses per shift and works up to 10 hours ...to make it short after a month, when i was about to get my salary, they told me that the hospital wont renew the new applicants since they have no budget:crying2:... Its up to me if i will still continue with my work!... ofcourse I will continue since I need to get an experience and make my self more productive and efficient nurse...
needless to say, I'am now working for FREE!
The only consideration I get is that my patients always appreciate my work and always told me how great I am as a nurse!:heartbeat:redbeathe

Yup... Philippines is a just great place to get started working as a nurse! :bugeyes: The prices of basic necessities are going thru the roof! and workers there are "underpaid". Remember... Nowadays, $1 = 40 to 42 Philippines pesos!!! :yeah: :yeah: :yeah:

Salvadorian Nurse · Apr 6, 2008

The hospital is located in Blythe, California is 100 miles from Indio (palm springs area), 100 miles from EL Centro, California, 60+ miles from Yuma, Arizona.

Blythe is located in the California-Arizona border, close to the Colorado River (Interstate 10). You can have fun at The Sand Dunes. It gets hot during the summer (Sonoran Desert Temperatures). Is smal town with aproximately 14,000 people.

CALI1025 · Apr 6, 2008

LVN = base pay $20.55/hr: Clinic, no weekends, less stress, main job: MD's assistant. Minimal direct patient care, some nurse stat calls prn and IV start. I am currently at $23.55/hr with 1.5 year exp. It is working just fine for me right now :up: .

dsanto3 · Apr 6, 2008

Sounds great to me, I'd do they need more help LOL. Sounds like something I would love. What part of Cali? Can you afford a decent 2 bedroom on that salary? I wish I had a relative out there so I could check it out for a bit. So scary to make a decision and a move when you don't know a soul.

CALI1025 · Apr 6, 2008

Of course, you could make a lot more if you are an RN in the same clinic where I work. doing same things. I live in San Jose, CA in a 3-bedroom th with two cars, some cc, fixed bills with my husband (who also works) and 2 kids. I am quite contented. My only issue in living here is the traffic. I guess, this is also a problem in most states. But I would say, it is best to see for yourself or do some research (if it is worth to consider moving out here) :nurse: .

loveabbyfromER · Apr 6, 2008

This is a good thread for information for everyone including me and I appreciate everyone's candor and honesty in providing the pay info on many different areas of nursing and different geographic locations. I have a pretty extensive background in mathematics, statistics, and economics and will be getting my BSN through a 12 month accelerated program so I am doing as much reading and research as I can on the profession. Everything from time in the library reading the professional journals to online research in addition to completing the pre-reqs for the program. I have thought of some considerations for everyone as they read these threads and do their own personal analyses of them and here are some things that came to mind:

1) Tax implications: for the most part I think everyone except for the non U.S. citizens is subject to Federal Income Tax, with the possible exception of U.S. military nurses working in a combat zone, that's not a joke, I was a U.S. military officer and there is a thing called a combat tax zone exclusion that protects income from taxation at the Federal level to a certain extent, and there may be other situations I am not aware of with regard to federal income tax, I am thinking here more along the lines of the various states everyone lives in and the state of residence tax implications, be aware certain states have no state income tax, for instance, Florida, Texas, Nevada, and I think Wyoming and a few others I can't remember all of them but you need to keep that in mind as you compare pay rates, as states have different tax rates, trust me I know, I live in New York which is tax nuts so that is important to remember...living in a state like Texas versus New York...for example....whatever I pay in New York state income taxes is effectively "lost" when comparing pre tax income to Texas income and would be substantial

2) Educational Options and Benefits: depending on how and where you got your degree and what it is..ADN vs BSN vs MSN and so on ...benefits need to be considered in the comparison...for example the program I am going to allows Free!!! as in 0 dollars expense for any graduate level coursework in Nursing all the way to earning an MSN if you work at the hospitals, clinics, or other positions associated with the university...that comes to potentially thousands of dollars.............even better in this example, any children of the employees can attend the university tuition free for undergraduate degrees...that would be in this example about 120,000 per child...no small benefit there

3) Cost of Living: this one is mentioned alot in this thread and although some general comments are shown...it really is hard to compare until you've got as many specifics as you can...most everyone knows about housing costs......home ownership or rents or leasing prices vary so much from location to location across the country but other things vary too, things like gas prices, grocery prices, car insurance rates...........all those things add up...........just figure out all or most of what you pay out every month and then consider the regional differences across the country......geography is a factor in almost everything you spend money on.........hope this helps .......................................

ORSmurf · Apr 6, 2008

I live in Northern California and work in an outpatient specialty clinic with no nights, weekends or holidays. I'm an ADN RN with 3 years experience and make 37.35/hr.

spider11 · Apr 7, 2008

I'm an LPN in central Indiana. Base pay $16.00...20% more for nights and 10% more on weekends. I am weekend option so I work every Thurs, Friday, Saturday. I get weekend option pay of $7 more an hour for Friday, Saturday. So...my pay is $19.20/hr on Thursday and on Friday and Saturday it's $27.80. We are always short staffed so I usually pick up an extra 8 or 12hr shift during the week for bonus. Bonus for an LPN is $15 more an hour. If i pick up the shift early in the week I go into overtime on Saturday which is 1.5x of base. (my check is always ridiculously confusing...I think they do it all on purpose. lol)

I work in a CICU/PCU tele unit and I really like where I work and the people I work with.